Milk chocolate blows. Nothing but >70% cocoa solids for me!
IIRC what in the UK is called a Mars bar is closer to a US Milky Way, with their Mars bar being something much different.
I am probably, of course, utterly wrong as I am basing this on my memories of a business trip to Atlanta in 1998.
I visited Chocolate World last year when I went back home to see my parents. They’ve made that place quite a lot nicer than it used to be. And THE CHOCOLATE IS CHEAP! You’d figure with such a touristy attraction, they’d be gouging you, but it’s even cheaper than in the stores!
Of course the ride still plays that same corny Hershey Chocolate song I remember from when I was a kid, so I guess some things never change.
If it’s not Lindt, it’s not chocolate.
The Reese’s PB cups I’ve had since coming south have been better than those I had back home.
It might have been a one-time occurance.
More sampling required, I think… CHOMP
The Reese’s PB cups I’ve had since coming south have been better than those I had back home.
It might have been a one-time occurance.
More sampling required, I think… CHOMP
Oh, you poor, stupid fools.
The only chocolate worth eating is made from the rare blue cocoa-beans that grow inside the undersea Samoan volcano of Vailulu’u, and mixed with pure hen’s milk and caterpillar sugar to make a delicious, creamy treat that makes all your plebian Lindt chocolates taste like the filthiest of mall toilet seats.
You can only buy it in a small shop in the fanciest district of Lichtenstein and it costs five hundred dollars and a magical dubloon per ounce.
…or you can get it for the price of a half smoked roll-up from the unemployed former miner who also sells his ass to sex starved sailors just at the top end of the dire Carlton Lanes shopping centre in Castleford.
Not anymore, he died.
The cream eggs rule! Especially the caramel-filled ones.
Everybody, cream eggs are nasty.
Now, also when I was across the pond, I had a white chocolate Kit Kat bar. It was great too, and because it said “New” on it, I assumed that it was just released world-wide while I was travelling. But, as all Americans know, such a thing does not exist over here. Sigh. Hmm. Now that I’m thinking about it, their Kit Kat said “Nestle” on it too, while I’m certain that ours is made by Hershey. Wow. They really need an international regulation on chocolate brand licensing.
They dissed on Crispy Crunch and Fusion! Of course you realize, this means war.
(And they didn’t even try Smarties or Coffee Crisp. I mean, those are the quintissential Canadian Chocolate Bars/Candy)
Word. Why would you adulterate perfectly good chocolate by adding MILK to it? Hell, I’m even suspicious when they add sugar…
Being a huge chocolate fan, i was really looking forward to trying Hershey’s the first time i came to the US. But i was extremely dissappointed. It’s fucking awful. I was brought up in Australia, where Cadury chocolate is still, as far as i know, made pretty much the same way that it is in England. I certainly could detect very little difference when i first went to England. I think Cadbury’s is many, many times better than Hershey chocolate.
Of course, when i really want a fix i buy some nice Swiss or Belgian chocolate.
But, for those seeking something good made in the United States, don’t despair! Interestingly, all of my favourite American chocolate comes from San Francisco: Ghirardelli and Joseph Schmidt.
Dove Chocolates are really good, IMHO. I believe M&M/Mars makes them. I prefer the Dark ones.
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after reading “This isnt cadbury” and then “I was introduced to Cadbury, England’s own line of upscale chocolate.” I immediately knew where this was going.
Living in Australia we get the shit cadbury, and when i see “upscale chocolate” i gave a big WTF?? before i figured out Englands Cadbury is good cadbury…
I had one of those 70% bars one time, and the next time accidently got the 85%…just a little too bitter.
I will be slightly more charitable, and say that the Aussie Cadbury’s just scrapes in as passably decent chocolate. It is certainly several orders of magnitude away from being great chocolate. It’s the standard brand in Australian stores, is relatively cheap, and as such, I’ll eat it.
Hershey’s, on the other hand, is revolting. I had a Hershey bar for the first time a couple of months ago. I had a second one a few weeks later to give it another chance. Both were awful. The only worse chocolate I’ve ever tried was a local product in Vietnam. I took some of the mediocre Australian Cadbury’s with me, and the way the local kids’ eyes lit up with delight when they ate it was enough of a commentary for me on the local fare.
Not having tried the UK’s efforts, I can’t comment there, but I think Australia and the United States should really just bow out and leave it to the Swiss.
I like chocolate. I like Hershey bars. They are two distinct pleasures, and virtually unrelated. Real, ass-kicking chocolate is pretty rare, and usually pretty bitter, too. Not to everyone’s taste, especially an American’s.
One thing I have noticed about Hershey bars is that they can easily pick up flavors around them. When I was a little kid, I’d sometimes get a Hershey bar at the local convenience store, where the guy behind the counter chain-smoked all day. It took me too damn long to figure out that all the chocolate there tasted like cigarette butts. Maybe it was just my imagination…
Cadbury is looked upon as being fairly average in the UK.
The other main chocolate manufacturer is Mars and its Galaxy chocolate range is usually considered as being better.
Personally I prefer Thorntons which is a very much smaller company, but whose products generally are in the specialist range.
Their toffee is just wonderful.
I have friends with relatives who live in Texas and their kids clamour for British chocolate to be brought over by family visitors.
I have had a nibble of a hershey bar that was exported back by those friends, but I found it was waxy, didn’t really melt in the mouth and rather sugary, it was as if it was a UK choc bar well past its sell-by date.